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Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters

By: Alan Milchman; Alan Rosenberg | Book details

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all forms of struggle are equally valuable. How far one can push this approach without being charged with essentialism is a good question. Still, it seems to me that a critical, dialogical encounter between Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault, such as the one suggested above, is needed to point the way “out the abyss” of our current cultural dilemmas to “a new and different way of thinking and being”—a way that leads beyond nihilism.


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The research for this project was supported, in part, by a grant from the City University of New York PSC-CUNY Research Award Program. A special thank you goes to James N. Jordan for his editorial comments and suggestions.

1
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Viking Press, 1968). Hereafter abbreviated as WP and cited by section number. I generally follow the standard translations of Nietzsche and Heidegger listed below, and the alterations I have made are usually minor ones.
2
Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche, trans. David Krell, 4 vols. (New York: Harper and Row, 1982). Hereafter abbreviated as N and cited by volume and page number.
3
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (New York: Vintage Books, 1973). Hereafter abbreviated as OT and cited by page number.
4
Cf. Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics, ed. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), i.
5
See Maudemarie Clark, Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 9.
6
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, “Second Essay, ” § 13, translated by W. Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, in Basic Writings of Nietzsche (New York: Random House, 1968). Hereafter abbreviated as GM and cited by essay and section number.
7
See Raymond Geuss's discussion in his introduction to Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings, trans. Ronald Speirs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), xii. See also Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, trans. Walter Kaufmann, in Basic Writings of Nietzsche, 783. Hereafter abbreviated as EH and cited by page number.
8
Compare also Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §§ z, 9, 14, 34, translated by Walter Kaufmann in Basic Writings of Nietzsche. Hereafter abbreviated as BGE and cited by section number.
9
Nietzsche sometimes cites Kant's “postulates of practical reason” (Freedom, God, Immortality) and Hegel's “Absolute” as examples of “weak nihilism” (cf. GM, 3: § i; WP, § i).
10
See Arthur Danto's excellent discussion of philosophical nihilism in Nietzsche as Philosopher (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980), 19–35.
11
Friedrich Nietzsche, “Homer's Contest, ” trans. Maximilian Miigge, in Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays (New York: Russell and Russell, Inc., 1964), 53
12
See Geuss, introduction, xxv.
13
Ibid., xxvi-xxvii.
14
The expression “nihilism of negativity” comes from Danto; see his Nietzsche as Philosopher, 29.

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